Bug#217814: base-config: previously downloaded package files get deleted

2003-10-28 Thread Joey Hess
Bernhard Kuemel wrote: > Andrew Pollock wrote: > >>>base-config runs apt-get autoclean. > >> > >>Well, thanks for making that clear. I'd like to have the option > >>to skip that. I had packages from releases other than that > >>defined in the current sources.list and would have liked to keep > >

Bug#217814: base-config: previously downloaded package files get deleted

2003-10-28 Thread Bernhard Kuemel
Bernhard Kuemel wrote: A suggested solution is a caching http proxy but that would disable smart cache purging with apt-get autoclean. However, apt-get autoclean is somewhat limited, as apt-get update runs out of memory with too much data (e.g. stable+testing+unstable), but that bug will hopeful

Bug#217814: base-config: previously downloaded package files get deleted

2003-10-28 Thread Bernhard Kuemel
Andrew Pollock wrote: base-config runs apt-get autoclean. Well, thanks for making that clear. I'd like to have the option to skip that. I had packages from releases other than that defined in the current sources.list and would have liked to keep them. It's a bit late now, but it's probably a goo

Bug#217814: base-config: previously downloaded package files get deleted

2003-10-28 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 06:56:03PM +0100, Bernhard Kuemel wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > >Bernhard Kuemel wrote: > > > >>I suspect base-config to automatically answer yes to the "Do you want to > >>delete any previously downloaded package files?" It probably happened > >>when during a debian installai

Bug#217814: base-config: previously downloaded package files get deleted

2003-10-27 Thread Bernhard Kuemel
Joey Hess wrote: Bernhard Kuemel wrote: I suspect base-config to automatically answer yes to the "Do you want to delete any previously downloaded package files?" It probably happened when during a debian installaiion I managed to import /var/cache/apt/archives via NFS or when I used base-config to

Bug#217814: base-config: previously downloaded package files get deleted

2003-10-27 Thread Joey Hess
Bernhard Kuemel wrote: > I suspect base-config to automatically answer yes to the "Do you want to > delete any previously downloaded package files?" It probably happened > when during a debian installaiion I managed to import > /var/cache/apt/archives via NFS or when I used base-config to "set" my

Bug#217814: base-config: previously downloaded package files get deleted

2003-10-27 Thread Bernhard Kuemel
Package: base-config Version: 1.73 Severity: normal I suspect base-config to automatically answer yes to the "Do you want to delete any previously downloaded package files?" It probably happened when during a debian installaiion I managed to import /var/cache/apt/archives via NFS or when I used b